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Saturday, August 23, 2003  

Hutton and website architecture

If the Hutton Inquiry website civil servants are really to post some 900 new documents today - with more to come later in the month - to the Inquiry website, I feel the website architecture to be somewhat lacking.

Going on the present structure, documents are listed purely in relation to hearing date they relate to, and then morning or afternoon. For a body of texts that will probably finally exceed 1,000 in number and could amount to many more - another round of hearings begins on 15 September - this is highly unsatisfactory.

Surely, this cannot be the only 'way in' to the evidence? It is a pure reflection of paper-based filing systems.

Ideally, there will be an index of some kind, and a search facility is essential too. Has there been any consideration of metadata?

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